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Friday, January 16, 2015

January is Bleak and Cold --- PUT EVERYTHING ON SALE!

Hey everybody! I'm proud to announce what I hope will become an annual tradition. Reaching deep down into my bag of poetical, lyrical language, I'm going to call it the BEAT WINTER Sale!

Basically, January sucks (although actually, it's beating the heck out of November and December this year). And what better way to fight the winter blues than by losing yourself in some free or $0.99 books? Over the next week and change, I'm putting my entire catalog on sale, so dig in and enjoy. There's no better time than now to share your favorite book with friends!

The first book in a dark epic fantasy series, SOULWOVEN follows two brothers and their friends as they try to stop the release of a dragon that will destroy the world. Called "artistic perfectionism" (Kirkus Reviews) and "a call back to the classic Epic Fantasy of Tolkien" (The Speculative Post), the book has over a million reads on Wattpad, and one of its key lines has been quoted thousands of times on Pinterest.

The highly anticipated sequel to SOULWOVEN, SOULWOVEN: EXILE tracks the continuing travails of Litnig and Cole Jin. More and more is stripped from them as they strive to save their world from the dragon, and the darkness of existence asserts itself ever more deeply in their lives. Released on 12/12/14, the book was an immediate hit with reviewers, who said it "captures the horror and the brilliance of the human spirit" (So I Can Read!) and "builds excellently on the strong base it establishes in the first instalment" (The Speculative Post). It ranked #12 on The Speculative Post's Top 20 Books of 2014.

A boy runs into the supernatural on his way to ask a girl to dance. A young woman wakes up hung over in a goddess’s bed. A mountain climber falls into a crevasse and hears the story of a glacier’s life. Jeff's debut short story collection, THREE DANCES explores gender, sexuality, youth, and oddness in the midst of beauty. See what came before SOULWOVEN, and why people liked Jeff's writing enough to fund his Kickstarter.

Read Jeff's first foray into horror - a dark short story about a girl fighting off a supernatural being that takes over houses and eats the hearts of those who live inside. WHAT LIES IN DARKNESS was the result of the first All Hallow's Write event, and it's been a hit whenever Jeff reads it aloud ever since. Audio book coming soon!